According to an interview with VentureBeat, co-founder Biz Stone said that Twitter was in the first phase of rolling out commercial accounts and after that, the company intends to build business-oriented application programming interfaces (APIs), which would create a "commercial layer" over the social network.
Stone said: "Twitter will still be free for everybody and we'll still tell them to go crazy with it.
"But we've identified a selection of things that businesses say are helping to make them more profit."
Twitter will also be launching "verified accounts" for businesses, which help followers decipher if a Twitter account held by Coca-Cola for example is actually owned by Coca-Cola or someone pretending to be the firm.
A number of celebrities such as cyclist Lance Armstrong and comedian Stephen Fry have already been given "verified accounts" on the micro blogging site.
Stone did not give VentureBeat a specific launch date for the newer commercial offerings.
Last month, , which revealed other commercial strategies aimed at helping the site generate revenue, including search ads, sponsored tweets, and AdSense widgets.
Meanwhile, , in a move that will let people see where "tweets" are coming from.
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